be found in 



5 6 FLOWERS OF THE HILLS AND DRY PLACES 



are in long, narrow spikes, dense or loose. The spur is bristle-like, 



and twice as long as the ovary. The bracts are equal m length to the 



ovary ^reen, 3 -nerved. The sepals are spreading. 



Frao-rant Orchis is 18 in. in height. Flowers may 



Tune and July. It is a perennial, propagated by division of the tubers. 



In the group Gymna- 

 denia the spur is wavy, 

 the lip broad, 3-lobed, 

 rounded. The anther 

 cells are parallel, con- 

 fluent with the column, 

 the pollen masses dis- 

 tant, and the rostellum 

 placed between them, 

 produced. The stigma 

 is bilobed, swollen, and 

 lateral. The spur is so 

 slender and narrow that 

 honey, though it rises 

 half-way up the tube, is 

 only reached by the 

 long proboscis of Lepi- 

 doptera, the Burnished 

 Brass Moth (Plusia 

 Chrysitis), Silver Y (P. 

 gamma], Treble - bar 

 (Anaitis plagiata], 

 Large -yellow Under- 

 wing (Tryphana pro- 

 miba\ The flower is 

 very sweet-scented. 



The seeds are light 

 and small, and are thus 

 dispersed by the wind. 

 , growing in peat soil or 



FRAGRANT ORCHIS (Habenaria conopsea, Benth.) 



IS a 



humus-loving plant 



Fragrant Orchid 

 humus soil. 



Habenaria, R. Brown, is from the Latin habena, thong, strap, from 

 the shape of the tip, and conopsea is from the Greek conops, gnat, because 

 it grows in situations where gnats are common. 



This plant is known as Long Tails, Lover's Wanton, as well as 

 Fragrant Orchid. 



